Video: Journeying to the “Rock-Bottom” of the Food Web
Amid footage of some of the harshest landscapes on Earth, Scripps geologist Hubert Staudigel explains his science team’s quest to understand microbes that can live off of volcanic rock in Antarctica — a journey that could help us understand how life on Earth originated billions of years ago. The video accompanies the explorations now story “Extremophiles Unite!”
Tagged with: antarctica • explorations now • extremophiles • hubert staudigel • mcmurdo • mt. erebus • rock-eating microbes • scripps institution of oceanography • volcanic glass • volcanoes
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